FC3, up2date, yum, apt, authenticating proxy

Lets Go Canes letsgonhlcanes at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 9 21:16:43 UTC 2004


Hi all.

--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Lets Go Canes said:
> > Does FC3 have a fix for the problem where up2date/apt/yum won't
> work
> > with authenticating proxies?  <a
> >
>
href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272">Bug
> > 102272</a>.
> 
> If you follow the instructions on exporting the http_proxy variable
> and
> not using console helper, up2date will work fine.
> 
> Yum and apt aren't affected by this bug (just the up2date backends),
> so
> check their documentation for how to set proxies for those.  I know
> yum
> uses the same http_proxy variable, not sure about apt.

I did follow the instructions, and like other people that have posted
on that thread, I find the suggested workarounds do not work with
*authenticating* proxies.

I am running from console.  up2date spits out a python dump, apt and
yum complain about proxy authentication required (analysis in the bug
thread suggests that the underlying libraries don't properly support
proxy authentication).


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Lets Go Canes!

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